Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts

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General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of Americaas most important poets. Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts gathers Whitmanas autobiographical notes, his views on contemporary politics, and the writings he made as he educated himself in ancient history, religion and mythology, health (including phrenology), and word-study. Included is material on his Civil War experiences, his love of Abraham Lincoln, his descriptions of various trips to the West and South and of the cities in which he resided, his generally pessimistic view of Americaas prospects in the Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, and his reminiscences during his final years and his preoccupation with the increasing ailments that came with old age. Many of these notes served as sources for his poetryafirst drafts of some of the poems are included as they appear in the notesaand as the basis for his lectures.Poemaillustrating (Good moments) soul in high glee all out (exquisite state of
feeling of happinessasome moments at ... It must certainly tallyaquot; with what is in
him . . . . other-wise it is all blank to him. ... This entry is in a large, sprawling hand.

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Notebooks and Unpublished Prose Manuscripts

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Walt Whitman, Edward F. Grier

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NYU Press - 2007-06-01

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